Targa intros Raptor-60 laptop with three hard drives
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 31st 2007 11:25AM
posted May 31st 2007 11:25AM
Those looking to ditch their desktop without giving up a scrap of hard drive space now have another over-stuffed laptop to consider, with Targa introducing a newly upgraded version of its already high-end Raptor-60 laptop. Near the top of the laptop's selling points is its three SATA hard drives, which can be configured in your choice of JBOD, or RAID 0, 1 or 5 configurations, giving you a total of 750GB of hard drive space. The laptop's no slouch when it comes to the rest of its specs either, packing a 17-inch widescreen display, Intel's 965 chipset, your choice of Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme processors, up to 2GB of RAM, dual Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 graphics cards, and an optional Blu-ray drive, among other features. Of course, all that doesn't exactly come cheap, with the various upgrades easily pushing the laptop towards the $5,000 mark, although you can cut that in half by opting for the lowest-end options across the board.
Cool! And only 10 minutes of battery life.
Why not just put a full 3.5" drive in and be done with it? They're only about an inch thick, and that laptop looks chunky as it is. Three drives must use a lot of power anyway. 1TB Laptop!!!
Holy Christ, 750 GB in a laptop. Wouldn't want to drop it.
RAID 5 requires 4 hard drives....seems this is one short.
No, RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 drives. Anyway, this is just a rebranded Clevo with some higher-spec options.
RAID5 requires 3 or more (with 2 the spec would produce something like distributed anti-mirroring or something)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
...and none of those options is actually there. 250 GB HDs, blu-ray drive, nothing. Forget this, buy elsewhere.
It's just another Clevo!! I'm sure this same computer has been posted about five times, under different re-brand names.
Engadget always does that with Clevos. For anyone interested, this is the D900C and can be had much cheaper at Rjtech, Powernotebooks, or Sager.
Haha suntiger, I know, and I bitch about it every time.
Why not 2 HD and a SSD drive for performance and a longer 20min battery life?
This must weigh a ton.